Author: Raquel Mateos

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Meeting with local stakeholders in Athens to learn more about the SPEY project

Meeting in Athens with all partners and the project’s team, to explain SPEY to local stakeholders The meeting consisted of two days where the project’s achievements were explained to local stakeholders in Athens: sports organisations, local action institutions and the Greek government. We work to minimize, through sport, the factors involved in the process of […]

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SPEY training ends in Riga

Fifty social and sports professionals have taken part in the latest training of the SPEY project (Sport for the Prevention of Extremism in Youth), led by the Union of Catalan Sports Federations and co-financed by the European Commission. The meeting took place online, due to the pandemic situation in the country, and was held this […]

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Over 50 professionals take part in SPEY training in Portugal

The SPEY Project, led by the UFEC and co-funded by the European Commission, combines the practice of sport and the learning of transversal skills with the aim of minimizing the risk factors involved in the process of radicalization in young people. The SPEY Project (Sport for the Prevention of Extremism in Youth), led by the […]

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SPEY participants discover the Catalan coast

The youth of the SPEY project have met part of the Llançà “camí de ronda” to Port de la Selva. The trekking, organized by the Federation of Hiking Entities of Catalonia, is part of the educational and sports process of the project. During the trip, participants walked eight kilometers in less than three hours and swam […]

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The youth of SPEY meet #Kicksfortheneighborhood

This week the SPEY project youngsters have met #Kicksfortheneighborhood (#Kickspelbarri), an initiative promoted by two youths from the city of Badalona. The initiative aims to collect used shoes and thought painting and/or repairing them, give them a new life. They have already collected more than three hundred units and distributed more than a hundred. Youth […]

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Nature, a healthy environment to work social cohesion

The group of young people from Sant Andreu visit Collserola. Twenty boys do a mountain tour to the Serra de Collserola with two technics of the Federation of Entitats d’Excursionistes de Catalunya (FEEC). FEEC has proposed a route of 5 km from Baixador de Vallvidriera, following the green path, ending at the Font de la […]

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The Unió Esportiva Sant Andreu donates sneakers to young people of SPEY

The social area of the Unió Esportiva Sant Andreu has given almost twenty pairs of sneakers to the young people who participate in the SPEY program. These young people play football on Tuesdays and Fridays in this club. They have received new boots nthusiastically. Most of them have been part of the european project since […]

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SPEY appears on the RAN channel

The Radicalisation Awareness Network presents the SPEY programme from Barcelona. Milena de Murga is the specialist who participates in the SPEY project from this city. She explains the work of differents professionals such as sport trainers, psichologists ans social educators to engage young people through sport. “The SPEY project seeks to create a sport programme […]

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The uncertain future of youth is a challenge for education professionals

The effect of the pandemic means more loneliness and young people have become even more connected to the Internet where there are messages and movements that incite violence. While governments implement security measures for the population, like as movement limitation, adults telecommuting, the RAN experts work for the youth interact offline with each other. The […]

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